Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Bronze Merit Medal Auction including a 1935 Hannover-Braunschweig Gautag

including a 1935 Hannover-Braunschweig Gautag badge

“Gerät-Nr

Fearlessly he had pushed forward every day that we were in the lines

consisting of a national eagle with open wings clutching a mobile wreathed swastika all within a larger oval wreath

issued during the later part of WWII

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Bronze Merit Medal Auction including a 1935 Hannover-Braunschweig Gautag(Verdienstorden vom Deutschen Adler; Bronzene Verdienstmedaille). Instituted 1 May 1937. A circular medal constructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a Maltese cross with a left facing national eagle with outspread wings clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons between each arm, the reverse bears the inscription Deutsche Verdienst Medaille, measuring 38. 05 mm (w) x 43. 30 mm (h), with suspension ring on a red ribbon with white and black stripes,